Ever since news broke that Jared Padalecki would be making an appearance in Gilmore Girls' Netflix reboot, word on the street has been that his role would be minimal. As in, Jared-practically-admitted-he's-got-two-minutes-of-screen-time-at-Doose's-Market minimal.

With Jared's role being so small, it was a sad but clear giveaway to fans of Rory and Dean that their fave couple didn't stand a chance of rekindling their high school romance. But now a picture posted to the Gilmore Girls Instagram account has them questioning everything once again.

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The picture is of a bookshelf stocked with literary classics, most notably romantic staples like Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. But what's mysterious is that sitting right in the middle of all the books is a box of corn starch.

Curious, right? Any Gilmore Girls fan worth their weight in coffee knows that Rory and Dean shared their first kiss at Doose's Market while Rory was holding a box of corn starch.

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What could this mean?! Since Rory's other love interests Logan (played by Matt Czuchry) and Jess (Milo Ventimilgia) are confirmed to appear in three and four episodes of the four-part mini-series, everyone assumed they were frontrunners in the race to win Rory's heart. But it can't be a coincidence that a box of corn starch is sandwiched between some of the world's most romantic novels, right? Could it mean that there is actually a chance for Rory and Dean?

Then again, the corn starch is sitting directly between Anna Karenina (a particularly tragic romance) and Moby Dick (also pretty tragic), so it could actually mean there's no chance whatsoever that Rory and Dean will end up together.

Then there's the possibility that Rory may end up with nobody and leave Stars Hollow to follow Hillary Clinton around the country like she did for Obama when the series ended for the first time, which would be tragic as well — at least for shippers who need answers.